Challenge over

My time ran out
for the
Challenge on Friday. I'll do a write-up of the trip in another post, for
now I just want to talk about the painting. As I expected, I was
nowhere near finishing both the Lootas and the Warbikers in time. I did manage
to get both squads done to a basic tabletop standard, there's the odd spot
where the undercoat is still showing, but nothing excessive. Both squads have
several different colours on them, and they clearly fit in with the rest of the
army, even if the lack of layers and highlights means they don't 'pop' as well
as the other models.

Admitting I wasn't going to get everything finished had an odd dual effect.
On the one hand, I didn't drive myself mad trying to paint models far faster
than I could manage. On the other, once I'd realised I wasn't going to get them
done I lost a lot of motivation to keep working on them. There were a few days
last week when I only did a bit of painting and I have to admit that as it got
to Thursday and Friday I was getting a bit sick of the whole thing. I did have
a back-up plan to paint a Big Mek with Kustom Force Field and Nob with Waaagh
Banner instead of the Lootas and Warbikers if I ran low on time, as they'd be
roughly the same points for far fewer models. I was cursing myself for not
choosing that option when I was still fighting to get the base layers done on
Friday evening.

From here, I'm
going to finish off the two squads, although I'll do them one at a time as I
have been previously. I'm having a break first though, and I imagine I'll be
working on them a bit more slowly than I have been recently. Once I've managed
that, I'll finally have 1000 points of fully painted Orks. I'm hoping that I
can get through the second 1000 points a bit faster than the first.

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